Welcome Linda. I have lots of Family in Crumlin and so my big issue is not letting them know I am in town prior to the race as trying a "dry" weekend with close family would be to hard in Dublin for me. I will call them up after.

The forum seems to be starting to buzz now and training is kicking off. I start Monday but have a nice local 10k tomorrow. Its going to be a lovely day and so just going to enjoy the sun and run!

SJPC14, hot, hot, hot........its was only a 10k race for me but tried to run it quite hard. Really hard second 1/2 of the race and I thought I was going to die. I am sure Dublin will be a little colder in Oct!

Well done on 14 miles, that must have been a long time out there in the sun?

Welcome Linda. I have lots of Family in Crumlin and so my big issue is not letting them know I am in town prior to the race as trying a "dry" weekend with close family would be to hard in Dublin for me. I will call them up after.

The forum seems to be starting to buzz now and training is kicking off. I start Monday but have a nice local 10k tomorrow. Its going to be a lovely day and so just going to enjoy the sun and run!

I'm coming over with the family and wondered where is the best place for them to watch. ie with a little bit of walking, can they see me at more than one place?

Hi Peter.

They can easily see you at the start, maybe on O'Connell St which is only a few minutes walk from the start. Alternatively they could head out to the Phoenix Park and see you around the 5 mile mark and then come back into town for the finish. That would entail a short taxi journey or a trip on the Luas followed by a walk of circa 1 mile. I'm not sure if you have children coming along but if they were old enough they could hire a town bike and cycle out to the park. www.dublinbikes.ie.

Another option may be to get the Luas to Milltown, around the 18 mile mark, see you there and then get the Luas back into town to see you at the finish line. www.Luas.ie.

Dont worry Bracken your get there, just give it time and dont fret to much about form until nearer the time.

Hello Scoopy and welcome , your 3.47 time and aim to get into the 3.30s , is what im doing, my PB being 3.48. So i'll see you there, we could even team up for the first half. I think there was someone else on here with a similar target as well.

Well done on sticking to the schedule James, sometimes it can be very tempting to do more. Hopefully as we are all back at work now, we should miss the worse of the heat, until the weekend. By which time it might of cooled down.

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